North Korea Goes Ahead With Seoul Visit After Olympics Deal
- Winter Games next month to include 22 North Korean athletes
- IOC chief Bach hails deal as sign of ‘respect and friendship’
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An advance team for North Korea arrived in Seoul on Sunday as Pyongyang reversed a decision to cancel the visit, a day after signing an agreement with the South to march under a unified flag at next month’s Winter Olympics.
North and South Korea on Saturday solidified plans to march together and agreed to compete with a joint women’s ice hockey team in a rare show of unity amid heightened tensions about Kim Jong Un’s nuclear program.